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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
Big risk for 2 spots, losing a first rounder, for a guy that might not be better than Lindholm or Monahan...
But we'll see.
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That and losing out on the late first-round player, which, given the draft depth this year, has a reasonable chance of being a solid NHLer.
If those two late picks are somehow leveraged to get get a second top10 pick then I'm all for trading them. Same if one of them could be used to jump from 6 to top 3. But I don't see a scenario where either of those moves play out. For example, the teams holding those top 10 picks are likely as enthused about the top end quality as we are, and so they probably aren't entertaining many reasonable offers to part with them.
Interesting debate though. These are the kind of decisions and potentialities that us arm chair GMs dream about!
I think I still like 3 first rounders in this deep draft, especially if parting with one of them would only move the team up one or two spots. Not enough for me.